Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-07-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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For the last hundred years the
mayors of the little town of Caloorden.
Germany. have all belonged to the
same family.
Chinese capitalists are said to be
taking away the business Of the for
eign banks at Foo-chow By lending
money at extraordinarily low rates Of
interest
"A site Of fifty acrss has been taken
for the Gordon Memorial Boys Home
in London. A building will be put up
to accommodate 16O boys. and the cost
Of maintaining the establishment will
be go. 600 year.
Mr.. Edwin Chadwick. president of
the British Association of Sanitary
Engineers. recently stated that sani-
tary measures applied to the army in
India had reduced the deatl-rate in
the military forces there from sixty
nine per thousand to thirteen per
thousand.
AN old lady who died lately in
Vienna bequeaths her property. valued
at 80. 600 forms. to her nineteen-ycar-
old niece. on condition that the latter
would never wear clothes of any other
cut than those worn by her aunt. The
condition was accepted.-DetroH Free
Press.
Roman carts without springs and
che Cincinnatus pillow are still used in
The Spanish district of Corrunna. Meat
is rarely used by the peasant proprie-
tors except on great festive occasions.
and the common beverage is water.
tea and coffee being considered luxu-
ries for the rich.
The plea that you have no small
coin about you is not valid excuse
with Mexican beggars. says a cores
pondent for upon such hint any one
Of the half-naked rascals will dive
ander his dirty blanket, and. eroduc-
ing well-filled bag of silver. courte-
Dusty offer to ''make change" for you
The population in England and
Wales was enumerated on April 4.
1881. at %, 974, 439. and on the hypothe-
SIS that the rate of increase or decrease
that prevailed between the census of
1871 and that of 1881 was mai ntained.
the population in the middle Of 1886
was estimated to be 1880. $50. This
means an increase of about rs per
cent. in the five years.
EXTREMITY handsome apples and
pears of many choice varieties are now
imported to England from Australia.
In color, shape and size most of them
surpass the same English sorts. In
flavor. however, with few exceptions.
they are pronounced inferior to native
fruit and to apples and pears from this
country. American fruit has the ad.
vantage of Il much shorter sea journey
to Europe-only three thousand miles
as against fourteen thousand from Aus
tralia.-M y Ledger.
Mr.. Coster, DOW at the head Of the
demonstrating industry Of Amster-
dam, estimates that 2. CO., 00U carats of
diamonds are now cut yearly in that
city. In 1880 the amount was but u.s.
600 carats. Another authority says
there are in Amsterdam 5000 skilled
splitters. cutters and polishers, we have
been working 10000 carats y week for
the last five years. or an average of
1.O40 carats per annum; the Last years
output being l. 800. 600 car s.-Dreks's
zrarelers' Magazine.
In view of forthcoming trouble, all
the Paris ROthschilds have had pack
ing-cases made lined with red morocco
leather. each numbered and labeled,
and shaped to receive not only their
pictures and objects of art. but also
their precious eighteenth century fur
niture. These cases. numbering many
hundreds. are stored in the Rothsehild
houses in convenient places. SO that at
moments notice the objects may be
pacl @a!, each in lie box. aud conveyed
to some place of security.
-rhree vessels-Of-war have inst
bcep ..dded to the English navy: the.
s:esl armor-plated turret-ship Sans
pare,l. the torpedo cruiser R,ceoon-
and :fe composite sloop Buzzar,l The
Sanspareil is the biggest iron-clad ever
launched in England She is to carry
two one hundred and ten ton guns
besides a powerful subsidiary &'ma-
ment, and will be capable Of . speed
of seventeen knots. The estimated
cost Of the vessel is eight hundred and
twenty-five thousand pounds ster-
ling, but by the time she is finally put
into commission the dOckyard author
tiles will almost certainly. with all
their multitudinous alterations and
improvements, have brought her cost
up to full million sterling--Ps1ic
Opinion.